conference organisers


SEC 2007 is organized by IFIP TC-11 in collaboration with the
Computer Society of South Africa and the following universities:

University of Pretoria
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
University of Johannesburg
University of South Africa



Conference General Chair

Rossouw von Solms, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa

Program Chair

Jan Eloff, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Local Organizing Committee Co-Chairs

Rossouw von Solms, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
Les Labuschagne, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Peter Aspinal, SBS Conferences, South Africa

Publication Chair

Hein Venter, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Program Committee

Helen Armstrong, Curtin University, Australia
Tuomas Aura, Microsoft Research, UK
Richard Baskerville, Georgia State University, USA
Rolf Blom, Ericsson Research, Sweden
Reinhard Botha, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
Caspar Bowden, Microsoft EMEA Technology Office, UK
Bill Caelli, Queensland University of Technology, Australia,
Jan Camenisch, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Bruce Christianson, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Roger Clarke, Xamax Consultancy, Australia
Richard Clayton, University of Cambridge, UK
Frédéric Cuppens, ENST Bretagne, France
Mads Dam, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Bart De Decker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Yves Deswarte, LAAS-CNRS, France
Ronald Dodge, United States Military Academy, USA
Dr Paul Dowland, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK
Mahmoud T. El-Hadidi, Cairo University, Egypt
Anas Abou El Kalam, LIFO – CNRS, France
Jan Eloff, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Mariki Eloff, University of South Africa, South Africa
Ulfar Erlingsson, Microsoft Research, USA
Hannes Federrath, University of Regensburg, Germany
Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, Sweden
Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth, UK
Viiveke Fåk, Linköping University, Sweden
Virgil D. Gligor, University of Maryland, USA
Dieter Gollmann, TU Harburg, Germany
Rüdiger Grimm, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece
Marit Hansen, Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA
Erland Jonsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Audun Jøsang, DSTC Security Unit, Australia
Sokratis Katsikas, University of the Aegean, Greece
Dogan Kesdogan, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Hiroaki Kikuchi, Tokai University, Japan
Håkan Kvarnström, TeliaSonera, Sweden
Svein J. Knapskog, NTU, Norway
Jørn Knudsen, Copenhagen Hospital Corporation, Denmark
Les Labuschagne, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Jussipekka Leiwo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Stefan Lindskog, Karlstad University, Sweden
William List, Firm Wm. List & Co, UK
Dennis Longley, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
Christer Magnusson, Stockholm University/KTH, Sweden
Vijay Masurkar, Sun Microsystems, USA
Vashek Matyas, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany
Refik Molva, Institut Eurecom, France
Günter Müller, University of Freiburg, Germany
Yuko Murayama, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Martin Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany
Andreas Pfitzmann, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Hartmut Pohl, University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein- Sieg, Germany
Joachim Posegga, Hamburg University, Germany
Dalenca Pottas, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Sihan Qing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dan Ragsdale, United States Military Academy, USA
Kai Rannenberg, The Goethe University, Germany
Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA
Hanne Riis Nielson, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Pierangela Samarati, Universita` di Milano, Italy
David Sands, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Ryoichi Sasaki, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Ingrid Schaumüller-Bichl, ITSB Linz, Austria
Matthias Schunter, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Anne Karen Seip, Kredittilsynet (FSA), Norway
Andrei Serjantov, The Free Haven Project, UK
Nahid Shahmehri, Linköping University, Sweden
Leon Strous, De Nederlandsche Bank, The Netherlands
Masato Terada, Hitachi Ltd., Japan
Stephanie Teufel, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Hein Venter, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Basie von Solms, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Rossouw von Solms, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
Hein Venter, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Teemupekka Virtanen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Jozef Vyskoc, VaF, Slovak Republic
Matthew Warren, Deakin University, Australia
Tatjana Welzer, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Gunnar Wenngren, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden
Felix Wu, University of California, USA
Louise Yngström, Stockholm University/KTH, Sweden
Hiroshi Yoshiura, The University of Electro- Communications, Japan
Albin Zuccato, Karlstad University, Sweden